Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013•TP•52m•6.5•Released
DocumentaryTV Movie
They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.
Director
Alain Charlot
Languages
English, French, Romanian
Studio
CAPA
Cast
Recep Cesur
Self
Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)
Kenji Fujimoto
Self
Kim Jong-il
Self (archive footage)
Nicolas Righetti
Self
Saparmyrat Nyýazow
Self (archive footage)
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Self (archive footage)
Frédéric Lagache
Self (archive footage)
Martin Bouygues
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Claude Narcy
Self (archive footage)
Patrick Le Lay
Self (archive footage)
John Ribeiro
Self
Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Dupont
Self
Production
Company
CAPA
Company
Canal+
Company
Planète+
Company
Canal+ Afrique
Company
BeTV
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